The Prince of Darkness could rise again in hologram form as discussions are underway for ABBA-style concert show.
Ozzy Osbourne died last year aged 76, having performed at Black Sabbath’s mammoth farewell gig just weeks before.
His death sparked an outpouring of love for the Crazy Train legend, with a procession through the streets of Birmingham ahead of his funeral.
Tributes have continued to pour in for Osbourne, including at the Grammys with Post Malone performing Ordinary Man.
However, an insider has now revealed we could get the biggest tribute to him yet with a hologram version of that famed final performance.
‘The plan was always to put the concert out in some form, but naturally, after Ozzy died, everything stopped,’ an insider told The Sun.
Reportedly there are several major offers for the rights to that gig, which was live streamed at the time.
They continued: ‘Sharon is now in a place where she is able to think about work again and is considering the options on the table.
‘Talks are ongoing and the offers range from a simple concert film to an ABBA Voyage-style show.’
ABBA Voyage opened in May 2022 at a custom-built arena, with digital 1979 ‘ABBAtars’ of the group performing their greatest hits with a live band.
Using motion capture, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad recorded the show which now plays seven times a week.
In just two years, the one of a kind gig had raked in a whopping £1.40billion while providing more than 10,000 jobs for annual workers.
It’s no surprise savvy Sharon is considering something on this scale, although Back to the Beginning was a 10 hour long spectacle.
The farewell gig was stacked with metal artists from legacy stars like Metallica to relatively new artists like Yungblud.
It also, of course, saw Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler and Osbourne take to the stage.
Metro reporter Maisie Spackman pointed out the distinct lack of female performers – ‘only two women all day’ – but branded it the ‘music event of a lifetime’.
While fans were unaware it truly would be Osbourne’s last hurrah, his declining health marred by Parkinson’s and other health problems suggested he was unlikely to tour again.
Back to the Beginning organiser and the musician’s friend Tom Morello shared the metal pioneer had been ‘frail for a while’.
Speaking on Chicago’s Q101 radio station previously, he shared: ‘The fact that he lived to play and feel that love and to one more time…you know, to do Paranoid, to do Crazy Train.
‘If you have got to go — I mean, I wish Ozzy that lived another 30 years — but if you’ve got to go out, it really felt like he knew.’
Sharon has since spoken about her late husband at length, tearing up during the tribute to him at the Grammys, and supporting Yungblud as he won an award for his cover of Changes at the farewell show.
Yungblud has been vocal about the impact his ‘idol’ had on him and is hotly tipped to star as Osbourne in a potential biopic.
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